[WriteLog] Prefill files

Hal Kennedy halken at comcast.net
Wed Mar 5 15:20:53 EST 2014


This may be redundant at this point - sorry if it is.
If you sent up the exchange entry as "overstrike" then operating with a 
prefill file requires no additional keystrokes. If the prefill is 
incorrect you just type the correct one right over the top as if it was 
any other QSO.

To change that entry to overstrike:

Go to: Contest>Exchange format setup, then click on QTH, then check the 
box for overstrike, then hit 'okay.'  In older versions I WL I think you 
had to end with hitting "save."

I am using the ARRL DX contest from outside the US as the example. But, 
any entry in any contest can be changed this way.

Once that's done, the only risk or penalty for using a prefill is you 
may get complacent and stop copying and start letting the computer do 
the work.  I find somewhere from1 to 5% of people move in a given year - 
you still have to copy everybody!

Prefill operating will yield slight improvements in speed (rate), 
accuracy and a reduction in fatigue.

73
Hal N4GG/4



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